136 Quotations by Aldous Huxley
- 81. Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same s ...
- 82. Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
- 83. So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
- 84. Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
- 85. Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of t ...
- 86. Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
- 87. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- 88. That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi ...
- 89. The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on t ...
- 90. The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- 91. The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen ...
- 92. The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities ...
- 93. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha ...
- 94. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha ...
- 95. The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however pa ...
- 96. The consistent thinker... is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all ...
- 97. The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t ...
- 98. The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to k ...
- 99. The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or le ...
- 100. The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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